Controlling your Music app from the Springboard has been done before by the jailbreak community, but I guess the developer of PodControl felt they needed to put their own spin on the formula.

PodControl is a simple jailbreak tweak that places three buttons on your Home screen. The buttons consist of Next, Play/Pause, and Previous, and they perform just as one would expect.

Take a look inside for our video of PodControl in motion…

As you can see from our video, there really isn’t much to PodControl. You get the three buttons on your Home screen, and that’s about it. There are no options to configure, and it plays nice with iOS 4 and iOS 5.

Head over to Cydia’s BigBoss repo if you’re interested in trying PodControl — it’s a free download.